​From Driver Urban's website shows the upcoming new mixed use development, Malden Station Apartment Homes, from Lennar, that will be built next to the Fullerton Transportation Center's parking structure on W. Santa Fe Ave. This project will stand at five stories tall with retail on the first floor facing towards W. Santa Fe Ave, and will include 200 market-rate apartment units along with 369 parking spaces.

This new project is ideal for being a Transit Oriented Development (TOD) as it is close to the Fullerton Transportation Center (radial distance from station is under 0.5 miles) which provides Amtrak and Metrolink services and Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) bus service including the Bravo! a rapid bus service.

OC Register reports that the existing Joe's Italian Ice will be closing late this summer to make way for the upcoming hotel project (Source).

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Back in November 2012, OC Register reported about a project in the City of Garden Grove that entailed the construction of a total of three hotels on a site located at the intersection of Harbor Blvd. and Twintree Ln. The project overall was supposed to include about 769 hotel rooms, 4-5 restaurants, and conference space along with 2 parking structures.

The tallest building (to the left), among the three, was to rise 19 stories with around 300-400 hotel rooms (Source: OC Register).

Orange County Dense Development visited the site and found part of the fence covered with blue tarp with the sign Turner. Might this project be moving forward? If so, the next question is whether the project will still include three hotels as shown in the rendering above, or will there be modifications? Stay tuned.

Pictures taken 4/27/2014:

By: Chad Kim

​According to the OC Register, the Great Wolf Resort, located in Garden Grove on Harbor Blvd., includes an indoor and outdoor water park along with about 600 hotel rooms, is reported to break ground this Spring 2014. This came amid long delays in moving forward with this project, as reported by OC Register, the project was introduced in the year 2010, and was expected to be completed in 2012. In light of the project now moving forward, the revised expected completion date falls on 2015. This ambitious goal is not a coincidence, as this is also the same time as Disneyland's 60th anniversary.

​​With the recent resurgence of residential and commercial developments in Orange County, my team and I will document the upcoming and existing projects throughout Orange County. This first post highlights the continuing construction of the mixed use Marriott Springhill Suites. This will include 172 hotel rooms along with a CVS store on the first floor at the intersection of Harbor Blvd. and Katella Ave.